About the book
Collaboration is now essential — yet too often it underdelivers. Promising partnerships stall, trust erodes, and ideas lose momentum not for lack of vision, but because collaboration requires more than goodwill. It demands clarity, preparedness, and a shared way of working.
Cracking the Collaboration Code gives leaders and changemakers the tools to make collaboration work — and work well. Drawing on decades of experience and real case studies like Alberta EcoTrust and Math Minds, Jocelyne Daw reveals the conditions that turn cooperation into synergy: a clear purpose, empowered people, and enabling processes.
With the Collaboration Code (your blueprint) and the Collaboration Compass (your navigation tool), this book shows how to prepare internally, build momentum, navigate conflict, learn continuously, and create results no organization can achieve alone.
For anyone ready to move beyond polite coordination into true co-creation, this book offers a practical, human-centered path to partnerships that are strategic, resilient, and transformative.
The future belongs to those who collaborate by design — this is your guide to doing exactly that.
About the author
Jocelyne Daw is a recognized pioneer and leading voice in cross-sector collaboration, social innovation, and community partnerships. As Founder and CEO of JS Daw & Associates, she spends her career helping organizations design and implement values-driven partnerships that deliver real and sustainable impact.
Over more than 25 years, Jocelyne has built a track record of guiding nonprofits, funders, businesses, and community stakeholders to work together in new, boundary-crossing ways. She is an internationally published author of several books on partnership, fundraising, branding, and cause marketing.
An accredited partnership broker and authorized trainer with the Partnership Brokers Association, she brings both the mindset and the methodology needed to turn collaboration from hopeful intent into structured, measurable, high-trust co-creation.
Through speaking, consulting, training, and writing, Jocelyne helps leaders navigate complex social, organizational and community challenges — showing that the future won’t be built by isolated efforts, but by partnerships courageous enough to work together.
